There are many things to consider when implementing new technology within a publishing or media business. In our experience, projects (however large or small) usually fail or under-deliver due to a small

The iPhone maker took newspaper and magazine companies on a detour to a boondoggle. Apple Inc. is revamping its digital bookstore in another attempt to take on Amazon’s dominance. I can’t help thinking: What

It’s been a year since The Washington Post started using its homegrown artificial intelligence technology, Heliograf, to spit out around 300 short reports and alerts on the Rio Olympics. Since then, it’s

In February, Facebook hosted dozens of media company executives at its offices to show its content and product plans. Earlier, it had held roundtable meetings with 100-plus publishers while former TV anchor

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was one of the first organizations to demand that a fair and transparent fee be paid to content creators when third-party distribution channels

Debunking misinformation and disinformation online is now a point of focus for many news organisations across the world, whether the teams consist of specialised fact-checkers or reporters who are taking on a

Klaxon, an open-source tool from The Marshall Project, allows reporters to monitor a specific part of a website and sends them notifications when there are notable updates. The Marshall Project, a non-profit

Alphr.com has been a headline-grabbing success story from publishers Dennis UK since their launch in 2015. Eighteen months later, they have risen up to challenge the traffic figures of long-established tech brands,

Digital brand solutions agency Collective has created a new Futures department whose focus is to take digital brand advertising to the next level and maintain its position as market leaders in innovation.

Publishers have been reposting their old articles for years, but now the tools available to them are getting more sophisticated. Swiss news publisher Le Temps has a whimsically named Project Zombie that

British Vogue has launched Vogue Fashion Update, the first Facebook Messenger bot that allows users to personalise their fashion news. Debuting to coincide with the start of London Fashion Week, Vogue Fashion Update enables

The dashboard, created in-house by the Financial Times using Chartio, shows editors which older articles are popular with readers and if they are being found through search, social media or internally. The

There are a host of well-documented issues around publishing and media companies launching apps, with discoverability being one of the biggest challenges. Google are looking to smooth the app download experience, and

Six months after British newspaper group Trinity Mirror integrated a server-to-server solution — the sequel to header bidding — the publisher is getting advertisers to increase their programmatic ad spending. In one

Publishers are struggling with the decline in home page traffic across the board. Bloomberg Media thinks it has found a remedy: When it relaunched its technology vertical in October, Bloomberg decided to

The Future Today Institute (formerly Webbmedia Group) has published its annual Tech Trends report, outlining 159 technology trends to watch in 2017 and their potential impact for different industries, including journalism. It